Overview
- Colin Jost played Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a combative press conference about U.S. attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
- The sketch leaned into a fictitious “Operation Kill Everybody,” using the bit to mock shifting explanations and belligerent rhetoric.
- Questions about an alleged follow-up “double‑tap” strike were central to the scene, echoing Hegseth’s real‑world “fog of war” comment.
- James Austin Johnson’s Trump repeatedly fell asleep, dreamt about New York mayor‑elect Zohran Mamdani, and coyly suggested he could abandon Hegseth.
- A faux C‑SPAN bumper joked, “Hey, Netflix, we’re for sale, too,” nodding to reports of Netflix’s deal to buy Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, as coverage of the real strikes has cited at least 84 dead and drawn congressional scrutiny.